Biography
Dr. Sean McFate is a foreign policy expert, author, novelist and consultant to the U.S. military, U.S. intelligence community, United Nations, and Hollywood. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington DC think tank, and a professor of strategy at the National Defense University and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Additionally, he serves as an Advisor to Oxford University’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs.
McFate’s career began as a paratrooper and officer in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and ultimately became a private military contractor and paramilitary. In the world of international business, McFate was a Vice President at TD International, a boutique political risk consulting firm, a program manager at DynCorp International, a consultant at BearingPoint (now Deloitte Consulting), and an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton.
McFate has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Politico, and Military Review among many other publications. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, WSJ, FT, Economist. McFate authored The New Rules of War: How America Can Win—Against Russia, China, and Other Threats that was named “Book of the Year” by The Economist, The Times [UK], and The Evening Standard, and is included on West Point’s “Commandant’s Reading List.”
McFate holds a BA from Brown University, MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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